You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Fiction novels, that's my game.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Beware of the person of one book.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.